Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Ann Jensen Adams examines four Dutch portrait genres of the 17th century in relation to inherited visual traditions, contemporary art theory, changing cultural beliefs about the body, about sight, and the image itself, as well as to current events.

Painting --- Noordelijke Nederlanden --- portraits --- social status --- anno 1600-1699 --- Netherlands --- Portrait painting, Dutch --- Identity (Psychology) in art. --- Art and society --- Art and society. --- Portrait painting, Dutch. --- History --- 1600-1699. --- Netherlands. --- Hollandse school

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Art --- anno 1500-1599 --- self-portraits --- social status --- Iconography --- Italy --- Fontana, Lavinia --- Parmigianino --- Bandinelli, Baccio --- Anguissola, Sofonisba --- Raphael --- Alberti, Leon Battista --- Leoni, Leone --- Michelangelo --- Zuccaro, Federico --- Ghiberti, Lorenzo --- Bramante --- Lippi, Fra Filippo --- Filarete, Antonio di Pietro Averlino --- Mantegna, Andrea --- Titian --- Vasari, Giorgio --- Carracci, Annibale --- Leonardo da Vinci --- Cellini, Benvenuto --- Autoportraits italiens --- Identiteit (Psychologie) in de kunst --- Identity (Psychology) in art --- Identité (Psychologie) dans l'art --- Self-portraits [Italian ] --- Zelfportretten [Italiaanse ] --- 75.041.2 --- 7.034 <45> --- Portretschilderkunst --- Kunst van de renaissance; barok; rococo; koloniale stijl--Italië --- Artists --- Identity (Psychology) in art. --- Portraits, Renaissance --- Self-portraits, Italian. --- Social conditions. --- 7.034 <45> Kunst van de renaissance; barok; rococo; koloniale stijl--Italië --- 75.041.2 Portretschilderkunst --- Social conditions --- Self-portraits, Italian --- Italian self-portraits --- Renaissance portraits --- Persons --- Portraits [Renaissance ] --- Kunst --- maatschappelijke status --- zelfportretten --- Italië --- Buonarroti, Michelangelo --- Italiaanse school

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new.... I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking." "This is a text of rare erudition and intellectual force. It will not only introduce feminists to an enriching set of theoretical perspectives but sets a high critical standard for feminist dialogues on the status of the body." Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Human biology is inherently social and has no pure or natural "origin" outside of culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is "incomplete" and thus subject to the endless rewriting and social inscription that constitute all sign systems. Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, etc. on the subject of the body, Elizabeth Grosz concludes that the body they theorize is male. These thinkers are not providing an account of "human" corporeality but of male corporeality. Grosz then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women -- menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause. Her examination of female experience lays the groundwork for developing theories of sexed corporeality rather than merely rectifying flawed models of male theorists.

Feminist theory. --- Gender identity. --- Human body --- Social aspects. --- -Gender identity --- Feminist theory --- Gender identity --- 316.356.2 --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- 316.356.2 Gezinssociologie --- Gezinssociologie --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Body, Human --- Human body - Social aspects --- Gender dysphoria --- Body --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychology --- Sexuality --- Theory --- Biology --- Book

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan. Ancient Greek culture celebrated same-sex love in history, literature, and art, making high claims for its moral influence. By contrast, Jewish religious leaders in the sixth century B.C.E. branded male homosexuality as a capital offense and, later, blamed it for the destruction of the biblical city of Sodom. When these two traditions collided in Christian Rome during the late empire, the tragic repercussions were felt throughout Europe and the New World. Louis Crompton traces Church-inspired mutilation, torture, and burning of “sodomites” in sixth-century Byzantium, medieval France, Renaissance Italy, and in Spain under the Inquisition. But Protestant authorities were equally committed to the execution of homosexuals in the Netherlands, Calvin’s Geneva, and Georgian England. The root cause was religious superstition, abetted by political ambition and sheer greed. Yet from this cauldron of fears and desires, homoerotic themes surfaced in the art of the Renaissance masters—Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Sodoma, Cellini, and Caravaggio—often intertwined with Christian motifs. Homosexuality also flourished in the court intrigues of Henry III of France, Queen Christina of Sweden, James I and William III of England, Queen Anne, and Frederick the Great. Anti-homosexual atrocities committed in the West contrast starkly with the more tolerant traditions of pre-modern China and Japan, as revealed in poetry, fiction, and art and in the lives of emperors, shoguns, Buddhist priests, scholars, and actors. In the samurai tradition of Japan, Crompton makes clear, the celebration of same-sex love rivaled that of ancient Greece. Sweeping in scope, elegantly crafted, and lavishly illustrated, Homosexuality and Civilization is a stunning exploration of a rich and terrible past.

Homosexuality --- Gender identity --- Homophobia --- Anti-gay bias --- Anti-GLBT bias --- Anti-homosexual bias --- Anti-LGBT bias --- Antigay bias --- Discrimination against gays --- Fear of gays --- Fear of homosexuality --- GLBT bias --- Homonegativity --- Homophobic attitudes --- Homoprejudice --- Lesbophobia --- LGBT bias --- Sexual orientation discrimination --- Discrimination --- Phobias --- Heterosexism --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- History. --- History --- Homosexualité --- Identité sexuelle --- Homophobie --- Histoire --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History of civilization --- Gender dysphoria